I really only have one thing to say as a Penn State alum - I expect heads to roll and the blood of unconscionable asshole administrators to flood the streets of State College. I am reasonable, though - the heads of administrators can also be impaled on large stakes right outside the school gates. Until this happens, though, I am not donating a ( Read more... )

1.) So, while western Massachusetts is still waiting to get power restored completely, they are still driving like lunatics, and not just where you need to navigate the downed trees and all. It's the simple stuff like remembering to use turn signals. Seriously. If anything, I'd think people would be more cautious nowadays ( Read more... )

FYI - Still have power/heat/hot water at my apt. Only a few brief interruptions Saturday night power-wise. No internet/cable TV, though. Spent weekend finishing off season 3 of Gossip Girl and started season 4 ( Read more... )

So, apparently while the vendor didn't break anything this time around, there are problems both with the new sample probe and with the instrument as a whole at our collaborator's lab (my former advisor's lab). Said advisor is poking around to see if we can score some time at a shared user facility, but that will entail some additional preliminary ( Read more... )

Seeing on the CNN site today that Lindsay Lohan got dragged back into court made me miss the good old days when she was still a redhead and made the jeans and t-shirt combo in Herbie: Fully Loaded quite astonishing.

I thought that this was an interesting article, and weirdly it sounds like it could be an amazing sort of position. Certainly, the ( Read more... )

1.) Amanda Seyfried looks really hot as a redhead in the upcoming "In Time." Mmmm ( Read more... )

So, I am slightly excited by the new Avengers trailerIn other news, it looks as if this one side project might be concluding for the time being. Now, just to write it up in a generally intelligible manner and insert it into the mostly-written manuscript. (Manuscripts that I keep meaning to send to the graduate advisor are being slowly prepared ( Read more... )

So while I managed to successfully solve two problems today regarding the analytical instrumentation, and did manage to diagnose another issue conclusively, my efforts to clean certain components of one of the instrument parts resulted in it breaking while cleaning. (Seriously, it needed to be cleaned, though - wiping it down did manage to remove ( Read more... )

Kristen Stewart has invaded my dreams. I would be more upset about this, but outside of those sparkly vampire flicks, she is not unfortunate looking ( Read more... )

1.) My spectrometer is being repaired and no one mentioned it to me. (Well, it's actually the shared user facility's instrument, but as no one really seems to use it except my group historically, but that's a minor detail ( Read more... )